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We are an independent digital media publication focused on the expansion of human creative consciousness by merging the mainstream + underground (★ + ✰). Much of the foundation for Ethereal has been in Jung's philosophy of the Red Book - in which he accounts connecting intimately with his higher self or soul.

INTERVIEWS

El Perro Del Mar - Interview

El Perro del Mar is merely an extension of me that enables me to do and say the things which I find hard to express in daily life. I’ve been using the name since 2004 when I came across a stray dog on a Spanish beach...

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acloudyskye - Interview

It's three of my characters, Enth, Ila, and Izi, trying to figure out where they are through a fog in the middle of nowhere...

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FRIKO - Interview

It’s a lot to ask nowadays, but we’d love for people to listen to the record as a whole since we made it with the intention of flowing like in full from start to finish.

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KEVIN HOLLIDAY - Interview

I think more than anything, me making music came purely from expression. All growing up I was definitely not an artist or anything like that. It was more of a recent thing...

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DENZEL CURRY [V2] - Grey Day

This week I had the privilege this week to share the stage with Denzel Curry, arguably one of the most exciting figures in rap music...

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IDLES - Live

The intro to the set was one of my favorites I've ever seen and it is going to stick with me for months I am sure.

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CANNONS - Red Rocks

Every year without fail there is an opener for a large show that really showcases their talents on stage. Cannons is one of those bands who I instantly became a fan of...

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DOM DOLLA - Red Rocks

A set so good it made me a fan of house music (which I thought was impossible).

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ARTICLES

I CAN'T MEDITATE - Is An Absurd Statement and Here's Why

The most common critique people will say is 'I can't meditate,' even though they are. They are so caught up in their own egoic construct they will refuse to entertain ideas that lay below the surface...

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WELCOME TO THE CHAO GARDEN - Ethereal D&B

No matter what type of art you produce, you can learn from the past, and there may be aesthetics you cannot reproduce on modern digital software...

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SATANISM & MORAL PANIC - In The Music Industry

If you have had the displeasure of reading through Doja Cat's Instagram comments in the last couple of months, you can see thousands of individuals criticizing Doja Cat for her apparent demonic possession or ties to Satan...

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EXPLORING MUSIC FROM SAHARAN CELLPHONES

Music From Saharan Cellphones features various tracks recorded on Saharan Africa collected on cell phone sim cards...

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JACOB MOORE - Interview

Right now, the norm is for labels to make decisions based on data. And they've all got access to more data than ever before, so it turns into a science. They look at the trajectory of streaming numbers and social media followings, and they avoid artist development...

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BLACKWINTERWELLS - Interview

The idea of protector, the album, to me, is sort of about. Caring and love. So the message is that everyone is a protector, and should strive to be, and to protect the people they care about and be protected in turn...

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S3RL - Interview

I’ve been lucky that I’ve always had more ideas for music than time to produce them all, so in the beginning, it was easy. I was releasing 15-20 tracks a year, and labels were eating them up...

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FLOOR BABA - Interview

DIRT BIRD is a big reason why PREHISTORY exists. The popularity of that record, and specifically of WIGGLECORE as a meme, has sort of been eating away at me over time...

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FUNERAL - Interview

I figured it would look really cool since it was mixing something deadly as an RPG-7 with something cute like our puppies...

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ALEPH - Interview

I had all these strange pieces of audio, from conversations w/ my friends, snippets of old medical films, warped acoustic noise, and chaotic synthesized recordings, and they all struck me a certain way...

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BRUNO PERNADAS - Interview

I think of this song as a journey that started with a love folk song that somehow turned a different direction into something more mysterious and beautiful that even I can't explain very well...

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I CAN'T MEDITATE - Is An Absurd Statement and Here's Why

The most common critique people will say is 'I can't meditate,' even though they are. They are so caught up in their own egoic construct they will refuse to entertain ideas that lay below the surface...

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FAX GANG - Interview

The sound selection in some of the instrumentals were really unique and haven’t heard anything like it in some of the previous projects like space requiem, spiral, and four walls. shellboy has some new style melodies/flows on this project that i haven’t heard them use before like on no evil and guardian angel...

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CAT TEMPER - Interview

I took inspiration from the somewhat schizophrenic yet entertaining behavior of a few cats I've owned who purr for attention and then sink their teeth into you without reason or warning.

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